people and injured many others in the west of the country. the epicentre of the earthquake, which measured 7.3, wasjust across the border in iraq, close to the kurdish city of halabja. us president, donald trump, is attending the annual asean summit in the philippines. mr trump is due to hold talks with the country's controversial leader, rodrigo duterte, who has admitted personally killing people as part of a campaign to eradicate drugs that has left thousands dead. saad hariri, who announced that he was quitting as lebanese prime minister earlier this month, says his aim was to give his country a positive shock. speaking publicly for the first time about his decision, mr hariri said he would return home within days to formally submit his resignation. now on bbc news, it's time for britain's city of culture. hello and welcome to hull, the uk's city of culture for 2017. this is the latest of art

installations fitting in with hull. we also have the spoken word and poetry festival. also, some of the world's finest ballet dancers come back to hull. i don't understand how we have had so many amazing dancers come from hull. we go behind the scenes in the turner prize. what do the public think about the shortlisted artists? this one here, it should be piled high and set alight. welcome to the show. this is a huge

new art installation being installed in front of hullminster. that is why so in front of hullminster. that is why so many activities are taking plays. how we got room for the little one and here? who is that? -- under here. she hasjust finished rehearsing. she is one of the headline acts that the biggest spoken word festival. it is called contains strong langage. four than 60 acts. we were here yesterday. it

was incredible. there is much more than rap. you have stars of poetry, like simon armitage. and hollywood stars, likejeremy like simon armitage. and hollywood stars, like jeremy irons. like simon armitage. and hollywood stars, likejeremy irons. something for everyone. hello from hull. the 2017 city of culture. playing host to poetry and spoken word. swerve into solitude... between the shorelines... i have been known to write a few. it it is a rich tradition in lancashire. i would not put myself in the same category as some of the writers here this week in any way, shape, orform. some of the writers here this week in any way, shape, or form. it is

national poetry day. what is exciting is to see the whole language taking place on a global stage. the reason being black and academic do not match... sparkly, like the wit of... so much. you cannot have a poetry festival without the legend that is the punk poetjohn cooper clarke. without the legend that is the punk poet john cooper clarke. he was an absolute gem. he even shared tips on how to be a par months poet. -- performance if i am forlorn, it ain't for long. could i be wrong, or have i fallen in love with my wife. you are the ramrod, the head honcho.

the boss of all bosses. i have to ask you a favour, like the godfather, give me some advice. i will be on this open mic stage performing the blue i am glad you asked me that. 0nly too pleased to help. number one, dress carefully. i just nearly died of a broken heart, i haven't seen my wife for four days. how about this? you are in your casuals fiow. days. how about this? you are in your casuals now. the thing is, you have to maintain an aura of authority. look sharp? ajacket? a silhouette. you have to cut a silhouette. you have to cut a silhouette. and we are getting up to point numbertwo, find

silhouette. and we are getting up to point number two, find a comfortable vocal pitch. let me be your vacuum cleaner breathing in your dust. i will never rust. if you like coffee hot, i will be your coffee pot. and in between you have to discuss what is coming up. when you are talking to them, it is conversational. a nice conversation. but when you snap on to nice conversation. but when you snap ontoa nice conversation. but when you snap on to a poem, that is a number, you aren't using the same pitch. number three. don't be too chummy. merchandise available in the lobby. boat, yeah, there it is, in the lobby. you could pay less for a t—shirt, i will be honest for you. not too much back and forth. the whole show involves speech, so you become all too accessible. you don't

wa nt become all too accessible. you don't want to get involved. people feel it it incumbent upon them to comment upon you. you have to nip it in the bud. i could chew the fat all night but there's the ticket. dress carefully, find a comfortable vocal pitch, and don't get too chummy. the three golden rules. yes. brilliant. thank you very much. you might be around to see me in action.|j thank you very much. you might be around to see me in action. i will see how you dress. thank you. kingston—upon—hull. see how you dress. thank you. kingston-upon-hull. with advice like that, i will be a professional performance poet in no time. why not? hull has a great reputation for poetry. another thing it is

fantastic at producing is ballet dancers. some of the finest in the country took their first lessons here in hull. they have returned home for a new opening at the theatre. they dance with some of the world's best—known ballet camp and is back akhil —— companies. in september, they made a triumphant homecoming, performing in a special one—off gala in the city where they took their very first ballet steps. this is where you took your first ballet lesson 7 this is where you took your first ballet lesson? yes. i was eight yea rs ballet lesson? yes. i was eight years old. xander parish now lives in russia after becoming the first brit to ever dance for the russian company. we took him back to his childhood ballet school on a rare trip home which he left more than 20

yea rs trip home which he left more than 20 years ago. shall we go to see your old dance teacher? hello. lovely to have you back. it has been a long time. it has changed since i was here. i get older, but students remain the same. i used to stand up on the bar here. with your little legs shaking like that. they have gotten longer since then. vanessa hooper and her mother taught a string of children who have made careers in ballet. there is xander parish. in english national ballet there is jozsef caley. parish. in english national ballet there isjozsef caley. andrew mcnicol is a co—ordinator. and at the royal ballet company, there is elisabeth harrod and xander parish's sister. and the man in charge, director kevin 0'hare. sister. and the man in charge, director kevin o'hare. each

generation has had their hull dancers. it is incredible. vanessa and her mother before her really knew how to engage with young dancers and give them a sense of hope is, perhaps. they took it seriously. —— purpose. many companies exist around the country but not all of them have this kind of record. to celebrate that, kevin 0'hare has brought his former stu d e nts 0'hare has brought his former students together. i never thought i would be performing here. they don't do regional tours. it is not somewhere i thought i would go back to perform. it is a once in a lifetime event, really. it is gala night. inside, xander parish is

among the dancers getting ready to perform. it has a special place for me. i had my first form and here. i was eight, nine. that is what got me hooked. whenever i say i'm from hull i always get quite a similar reaction, there's so many people from hull that are dancers and they start reading of all the names. i don't understand how we've had so many ageing dancers come from hull, it's quite incredible. with theatre in... after the show the dancers boarded a bus and got ready to surprise them, appearing in person for their curtain call. the theatre looked amazing, the dancers were all incredible, and then to see so many people out here, it's really thrilling. so many dancers who took their first ballet steps in hull have made huge leaps towards the top of their profession. the gala show brought some of them back to where theirjourney began.

later we'll hear from 0scar winnerjeremy irons, who's come to the city to celebrate hull through poetry. and will be finding out how you move the world's most talked about arts and we'll be finding out how you move the world's most talked about arts show from london to the city of culture. but first, take a look at everything we've been up to in the past couple of months. hull's 10th annual freedom festival celebrated antislavery campaign william wilberforce with over 200 free events, as well as live performances and pop—up surprises, there was a lecture from kofi annan, the former un secretary general. to paraphrase william wilberforce, we may choose to look the other way but we can never say again that we did not know. there's been more brilliant theatre

premiers, including kings of hull byjohn godbeth and an adaptation of the novel a short history of tractors in ukrainian. turn and face the strange was a celebration of mick ronson and his journey from a hull housing estate to rock ‘n‘ roll stardom as david bowie's guitarist. one day they turned an old office block into a 19805 south korean police station. i've got to be honest, it's one of the best but creepiest things i've done all year. if i don't make it out, tell my mum, dad, sisters, brother, you can't touch my stuff! 0n the first of october, hundreds of hull's iconic phone boxes rang simultaneously and the people who answered spoke

to a character from the year 2097. hull's feature is the subject of five sci—fi films that sit alongside a live experience and an interactive app. we're now well into tell the world, the fourth season of hull 2017 that runs from october to december. highlights include these photographs by 0livia after and martin capturing the essence of what makes hull unique. a new by maxine peake will tell the story of lylian blocher who campaigned for safer conditions for trawlermen, and as the year draws to a close, there's more large—scale art installations in store, including a light show in the robotic arms. so much good stuff so far but one of the highlights of the year is still to come. in december, that stage will have disappeared and this will be the venue for giving out the turner prize. how do you get the most prestigious

art show out of london and into hull? i've been finding out. some love it, some hate it, but pretty much everyone has an opinion on the annual turner prize. over the years, the competition's become notorious. works like damien hirst‘s pickled cows, tracy min's unmade bed, and martin creed's lights going on and off, making some ask, is it really art? but, this year, the turner prize has grown up a bit. for a start, a change in the rules means two of the artists are over 50. the techniques are more traditional — printmaking, photography, painting. and the subject matter is more political. one thing that started to take me down this road was this idea that it's someone forgetting where they were. the history of people from the caribbean, or from the rest

of the world in britain, is they couldn't forget the way they were. they had to be constantly aware. painter anderson is one of four shortlisted artists vying for the £25,000 prize. next, german printmaker and multimedia artist andrea, examining issues like shame and baking. there's hardly any art historical research done on the iconography of the beggar. and it's important to me, coming from my interest in shame. it made me interested in the discourse of it in art. she looks at black identity. sometimes the pattern is on the newspaper to give the black person some kind

of talisman to balance up what the text, which is often juxtaposed from quite another story, is doing to undermine that black person. finally, rosalind is showing two films, viv‘s garden and electrical gaza. everything i shoot is on 16mm up until now. it's not that i'm thinking it's nostalgic all looks a certain way, it's that it captures a certain liveliness in the image. when there is a permanent state of crisis and war, there are things that are not seen. the actual human beings that are lost. every other year, the turner prize travels out of london. and this year, it's come to the city of culture. but how do you move this hugely popular show from tate britain to a small regional gallery? i went behind the scenes at hull's gallery as an army

of curators, technicians and builders got to work. you might think getting ready for the showjust involve taking down the old art and giving the walls a lick of paint. but take a look at this. getting ready for the turner prize is a full—on construction project. the turner's curator showed me round as they built two proper cinemas to show rosalind's films. we want people to feel comfortable and spend time watching the whole film. sometimes it's uncomfortable and the sound is blaring but we wanted to immerse people in the film. there was a lot of thinking to do. before the real paintings came. we laughed the other day that most places you come here won't know that the walls are

different shades of white. there's thousands of different shades of white. how many tester pots have you gone through? there's hundreds, boxes of them, i was joking with anderson that its 50 shades of artistic grey or something. each asked artist worked with a curator to install their exhibition and for this man, showing outside london has proved no less stressful than being in the capital. if it is outside the capital the pressure is real people. people you've actually seen in the shopping area are going to be in here looking at this work. just by taking six steps in, that's a huge pressure, whereas in london, it's sort of some other intangible thing. and then there's the pressure of thejudging. in december, we'll find out which of these four artists will take away the turner prize. since the exhibition came to hull, people have been lining up to see it. but what do the locals think?

i think it's good. i think it's got a good contrast between modern art and oldish art. it's lovely to see paint used so well. they're very painterly, and the colours are amazing. i like the colours of them and how, they're, like, different colours of green and stuff. it's not what i would have expected for the turner prize. i've looked about me here and i've sort of thought this is going to make tracey emin‘s bed look like a masterpiece. no merit whatsoever. it should be piled high and set alight, and let the roaring flames go up to the sky. that would be art. amateur art critics from all over have been having their say on the exhibition, including the stars of an online video series featuring puppets voiced by hull teenagers. i don't understand how people get famous off this, or get — i don't understand. this one here...

they've put their bum cheeks on that. but what for? proof of identity? well, what do you think about the art? you might be speechless, like that puppet, you might love it, you might hate it. but, as the tagline says, whatever you think about the turner prize, you're right. we're back at contains strong language, and one of the headline acts, kate tempest, is onstage. as a rising star she's accomplished so much. she's the winner of the ted poetry prize. one of the other highlights of the festival has been this, poetry written in or about hull and read by actors

julie hausmann haupt and hollywood starjeremy irons. down by the indian ganges's side should rubies find. i by the tide of humber would complain. he's one of the few actors to excel on the stage and the small and big screen, winning a tony, an emmy, and an oscar. do i know you? he is still making hollywood blockbusters, but he's always got time for a bit of poetry. i love being introduced to new poets, which i have been in this programme. i mean, philip larkin i know, although i didn't know some of the poems i'm reading of his in this. steven smith of course, the famous hull poets. did you write anything yourself? no. i used to, when i was 1a or 15, short shirt it was called. i'm worried about my shirt,

very worried, very worried indeed, think it's too short for my trousers, a safety pin‘s the thing that i need. you see, my shirt is too short and my trousers too low. i'm sure they would be happy together, they must lead a terrible life, i have a suspicion they might make a good man and a wife. don't call me matchmaker, i'm just trying to help. it would be so simple to fix them together for companionship's save. a safety pin‘s just what i need. well remembered, as well! i know, i surprised myself actually. you mentioned you mentioned before about philip larkin and andrew marvell. reading both of them today, who is hull's best? i never compare, never compare levels. i never compare poets, i never compare music, it's just different.

i'm glad we don't have oscars for poets. it's ridiculous for actors, but for poets it would be stupid because it's about communication. whenever i read a poem i get a different to you and that's the glory of it. whenever i get a bad review i always think, someone might have liked it. these days, poetry is having a bit of a renaissance. younger people are getting involved. what do you think about that? i think it's fantastic, i did a lot of reading withjocelyn hart, who is sadly dead now, trying to get it in schools but i think rap has a lot to do with it. so much of the time kids spend time in this ridiculous short and language on facebook and twitter and all of that but now they're beginning to have fun with language. research has found that you have the perfect male voice. so can you give us some tips on how to deliver a poem perfectly? i recently did a lot of eliot. for radio 4? for radio 4. and as an actor, you try to be

the connection between the writer and the listener, and not get in the way. and that's what i try to do with poetry. not perform, but actually work as a communicator of the writer's ideas. i mean, i say to people when they're listening to eliot, which is very very long, if you nod off, that's fine. because he says, for instance, that it's often when you're in that half—dream state between waking and sleeping, that you're really open to influences. you read larkin‘s poetry today. do you think that hull has improved since he wrote his verse? i'm going to be so ashamed of what i'm about to say. i've been in hull for the first time in my life for about three hours. so you've mainly seen this room? here, the walk from the station, and the train ride into hull. i'm not one to judge hull.

but i'm sort of intrigued by the affection people have for it, almost exactly 2a hours i'm here for. you have to change that, you'll have to extend your stay by a day. in that case, thank you for spending 2a hours in hull. it's been a real pleasure, and i'll have to come back i think. and that's all from us tonight. but we will be back with one very special episode looking back at the whole of hull's year as uk city of culture. just one more left, i can't believe it's nearly over. if you want to get your cultural fix, head to this website. goodbye. hello there. well, for most of us, sunday was a pretty glorious day.

plenty of sunshine, but it was cold. windy as well, particularly down the east coast. plenty of showers here, too. some of these will continue through the course of the night. again, some of them on the heavy side, but become more confined to the north sea coast of england and elsewhere, turning much drier and a colder night to come. widespread frost developing in some rural places. you can see the blue colours there. there is something a little less cold pushing into the north—west of the uk by the end of the night, as a weather system pushes in here, bringing increasing cloud and outbreaks of rain. we start monday morning cold and frosty. lots of sunshine though. you can see the blue hue there, so some places around freezing or below at around 8:00am in the morning. we'll continue to see cattered showers and blustery conditions across eastern coast areas, particularly from lincolnshire down in towards east anglia. the odd heavier one, too. much of northern ireland, much of northern england and scotland, a cold start. but we'll see increasing wind and cloud across western scotland, with outbreaks of rain

into the western isles initally. and this weather system will continue to move east through the course of the day, bringing rain and hill snow. we could even see snow down to lower levels, across central and eastern parts of scotland for a time, before it all turns back to rain as the milder air moves in. northern ireland, cloudy with outbreaks of rain. elsewhere, a fine day but the sunshine turning hazier, and it's going to be another cold one. for monday night, this weather system continues to advance eastwards, bringing stronger winds, outbreaks of rain to much of the country, but also milder air. we'll lose the cold air as that weather system moves. you can see we're all into the yellow and orange colours. most of the country, i say, because the far north of scotland continues to wax and wane in that cooler air stream. so, for tuesday, it's a cloudier day. there'll be outbreaks of rain, particularly across western hills, a bit of mist and murk. look at those double—figure values for most — 10—12 degrees. wednesday and thursday also rather cloudy.

the best of the sunshine across northern parts of the uk. thursday actually looking like probably the mildest day across the whole of the uk. so it's quite a mixture this week. we're starting off on a cold and frosty start, with some sunshine. it turns milder and cloudy for a time, with outbreaks of rain, and then signs of it turning colder by the end of the week. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. i'm duncan golestani. our top stories: at least 120 people are killed as a strong earthquake hits the border region between iraq and iran. the asean summit gets under way in manila. donald trump meets the controversial leader of the philippines, rodrigo duterte. the former prime minister of lebanon, saad hariri, has spoken publicly for the first time since his surprise resignation. the prince of wales leads tributes to the fallen. this year, the queen watched the ceremony from a balcony for the first time.